[ Note: this is not about DoS attacks, but bots trying to scrape/work solution off a site. The bad news: the "best" answer was: to use a CAPTCHA. Really sad

[ Note: this is not about DoS attacks, but bots trying to scrape/work solution off a site. The bad news: the "best" answer was: to use a CAPTCHA. Really sad that this is state-of-art for the issue.